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As a Flying Start NHS® mentor your will not only have the satisfaction of seeing your newest colleague settle into the team and develop, you will also be building your own evidence for your NHS KSF development review.

Getting Started on Flying Start NHS® development programme should take place as close to commencing your first post in NHSScotland as possible. Flying Start is the core programme for all staff to support induction, transition and the NHS KSF development review cycle, so meet with your mentor as soon as you can to plan your learning goals.

Welcome to the new Flying Start NHS® registration area. To take full advantage of the programme please only register when you take up your first post as a newly qualified practitioner either employed within NHSScotland or as an internship learner under the one year job guarantee scheme or as a member of Bank Staff or while working within another Healthcare sector.

An important part of the Flying Start NHS® programme is developing the right communication skills to be an effective team member, and this unit is designed to help you to play your part in the healthcare team.

Flying Start NHS is a tool for managing the first year of your career, and experience tells us that practitioners continue to use the resource as they progress. Being ready and prepared for interview is vital for securing a permanent NHSScotland post or promotion.

Reflective Practice underpins the entire Flying Start NHS programme. It is based on a balanced approach to strengths and needs in practice with support and guidance from a workplace mentor and team colleagues. This unit will help you embed reflective practice into your everyday work to improve the quality of care and treatment you provide.

Most of the activities within Flying Start NHS focus on developing your skills and knowledge as a newly qualified practitioner. However at some point the emphasis will shift to you facilitating learning in others, this may be with students, assistant practitioners or as an educator to patients/clients and their carers.

Welcome to your new Flying Start NHS® mentor area, developed in response to feedback from mentors. As a Flying Start mentor, your role is to guide and support your newest colleague, as such your input is invaluable in supporting transition and we hope you will enjoy this challenging and rewarding experience.

One of most important skills for managing a successful career is goal setting. By developing your Flying Start NHS portfolio, you will be continually reviewing your strengths and needs and setting goals regarding the areas of clinical practice you want to develop further.

Policy can sometimes feel very removed from the delivery of healthcare. This unit aims to help you understand the important relationship between policy and delivery at a local level. Understanding national targets will strengthen your ability to ensure these are met locally.

When you are planning your activities to meet the learning outcomes, you should consider the level of learning that you want to achieve. You will find the Get Started and Gaining Credit pages of Flying Start NHS® useful. Additionally, the Post Registration Career Development Framework for Nurses, Midwives and Allied Health Professionals and Effective Practitioner websites will help you to you to assess learning needs and plan for your continuing development beyond Flying Start NHS®.

The 10 Concluding Activities are designed to support reflective practice in each of the ten learning units. You must complete all 10 Concluding Activities to evidence you have completed the Flying Start NHS programme. As you complete the units, you are creating your evidence to support your NHS KSF interim and Joint Development Review.

The 10 Concluding Activities are designed to support reflective practice in each of the ten learning units. You must complete all 10 Concluding Activities to evidence you have completed the Flying Start NHS programme. As you complete the units, you are creating your evidence to support your NHS KSF development review and pay progression at the Foundation Gateway.

The 10 Concluding Activities are designed to support reflective practice in each of the ten learning units. You must complete all 10 Concluding Activities to evidence that you have completed the Flying Start NHS programme. As you complete the units, you are creating your evidence to support your NHS KSF interim and Joint Development Review.

The 10 Concluding Activities are designed to support reflective practice in each of the ten learning units. You must complete all 10 Concluding Activities to evidence you have completed the Flying Start NHS® programme. As you complete the units, you are creating your evidence to support your NHS KSF interim and first gateway development reviews.

The 10 Concluding Activities are designed to support reflective practice in each of the ten learning units. You must complete all 10 Concluding Activities to evidence you have completed the Flying Start NHS programme. As you complete the units, you are creating your evidence to support your NHS KSF development review and pay progression at the Foundation Gateway.

The 10 Concluding Activities are designed to support reflective practice in each of the ten learning units. You must complete all 10 Concluding Activities to evidence you have completed the Flying Start NHS programme. As you complete the units, you are creating your evidence to support your NHS KSF development review and pay progression at the Foundation Gateway.

The 10 Concluding Activities are designed to support reflective practice in each of the ten learning units. You must complete all 10 Concluding Activities to evidence you have completed the Flying Start NHS programme. As you complete the units, you are creating your evidence to support your NHS KSF development review and pay progression at the Foundation Gateway.

Clinical skills will be the area where you will naturally want to develop most confidence in the first year of practice. Flying Start NHS® will not tell you how to do any particular clinical skill, as it supports so many different professions. This unit is designed to help you identify and plan how to develop the right clinical skills for your setting.

The 10 Concluding Activities are designed to support reflective practice in each of the ten learning units. You must complete all 10 Concluding Activities to evidence you have completed the Flying Start NHS programme. As you complete the units, you are creating your evidence to support your NHS KSF development review and pay progression at the Foundation Gateway.

Please find below a list of frequently asked questions which are designed to help you understand the aims and objectives of the Flying Start programme. If you have a question which is not addressed here, please use the Contact Us function to ask the project team.

This dimension focuses on maintaining and promoting the health, safety and security of everyone in the organisation or anyone who comes into contact with it. It includes tasks that are undertaken as a routine part of one's work such as moving and handling. Those who come into contact with the organisation will be anyone who interacts with an employee of the organisation or who is affected by the actions of the organisation.

This dimension is about improving services in the interests of the users of those services and the public as a whole. The services might be services might be services for the public (patients, clients, and carers) or services that support the smooth running of the organisation (such as finance, estates). The services might be single or multi-agency and uni or multi-professional.

This dimensions relates to the maintaining high quality in all areas of work and practice, including the important aspect of effective team working. Quality can be supported using a range of different approaches including; codes of conduct and practice, evidence-based practice, guidelines, legislation, protocols, procedures, policies, standards and systems. This dimension supports the governance function in organisations - clinical, corporate, financial, information, staff etc.

It is the responsibility of every person to act in ways that support equality and diversity. Equality and diversity is related to the actions and responsibilities of everyone - users of services, including patients, clients and carers; work colleagues; employees; people in other organisations; the public in general.

This dimension relates to the effective communication in whatever form it takes place. Effective communication is a two way process. It involves identifying what others are communicating (eg through listening) as well as developing oneself, and the development of effective relationships.

Managers play a vital role in creating the right learning environment for newly qualifed practitioners. By facilitating the space for an experienced mentor to support and guide the newest team member, managers can significantly reduce the stress that we know comes with being newly qualified.